Sunday, July 09, 2017

Saturday 8th July 2017- A busy day at the office

Another beautiful morning with the birds kicking in at about 5.30 Am so if you need an alarm call at that time it’s quite perfect. And of course this place is so quiet that any birds that tweet will be heard from some way away.
So prior to breakfast we had set ourselves a target to clean the awning and specifically the windows both inside and out and although you can hose down the outside you cannot do this inside for obvious reasons.
We also purchased some while ago the special cleaner made by the awning manufacturer called Isabella and we are both pleased with the result and the windows are far better. Let’s hope they don’t get to dusty before we pack the awning tomorrow afternoon. We also sorted through the caravan and discovered that we had some old and pointless bits of flooring which is not needed and also we have one broken chair courtesy of a very large guest who plopped herself down so that the plastic bracket broke and we did consider looking locally for a replacement but we have decided to do without until we get home and then re-assess our requirements. We may decide that this style of chair is not strong enough and that we should spend a little more and get chairs with aluminium frames and brackets.
In the afternoon Jennifer caught up with some washing in one of the sites big industrial sized washing machines as this would save time when we arrive home. We also did some other sorting and planning in readiness for packing up over the next couple of days in readiness for our departure on Wednesday morning.
We have placed our caravan on the same location for the last few years and it enable us to plumb in the water and waste as there are only about 6 locations in the site where this can be done, however with so much hot weather this year the little road alongside our van kicks up lots’ of dust and so we went on a walkabouts and think we shall take site A15 next time. So providing our waste pipes are long enough it should be fine but we will be out of the WIFI zone which we understand is due to change next year anyway, lets us see.
Channel 4 is showing the highlights of qualifying and also the race of the Austrian F1 race and so in the evening we watched the qualifying and based on the grid it should be a good race which we can watch the highlights of tomorrow night.
The site seems a little busier than recent and interestingly there are far more tents than we have seen before, what this means I don’t know but it is usually mostly caravans and motor homes that fill the place.
So tomorrow morning we have a busy day with putting the awning down and also packing up the tables and all the other bits and pieces we seem to have and so that should take a while. We hope to be finished, providing it does not rain somewhere during mid-afternoon so that we can have our steak BBQ and then watch the F1.

Was hoping to post this tonight but cannot get internet connection, ah well will just have to be tomorrow.